Season 3. Ep 55. Fear & Free Will
This episode of Physically Spiritual explores free will and fear.
Video Version
Audio Version
Timestamps
0:30 The Libet Experiment
3:00 What is Free Will?
11:30 Responsibility & Freedom
14:00 The Brain & Fear
19:00 The Body & Fear
24:45 Relationships & Fear
26:45 Fear & Sin
29:30 Regulating Your Nervous System
32:15. Supernatural Co-Regulation
Notes
The Libet Experiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will#Libet_experiment
Catholic Scholars Lecturing on Free Will & the Libet Experiment - https://open.spotify.com/search/Thomistic%20Institute%20Free%20Will/episodes
“God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him." Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1730.
“Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors”. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1735.
“The Tiger in Your Inbox” | Physically Spiritual S1 E10 - https://www.becominggift.com/post/tiger
Triune Brain Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
Neuroception - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuroception
Polyvagal Theory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec3AUMDjtKQ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvagal_theory
Co-Regulation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation
Mirror Neurons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
“Fear changes our body. Fear changes the sense. Fear changes our passions.”
“For God is in all things by His essence, power and presence, according to His one common mode, as the cause existing in the effects which participate in His goodness. Above and beyond this common mode, however, there is one special mode belonging to the rational nature wherein God is said to be present as the object known is in the knower, and the beloved in the lover. And since the rational creature by its operation of knowledge and love attains to God Himself, according to this special mode God is said not only to exist in the rational creature but also to dwell therein as in His own temple. So no other effect can be put down as the reason why the divine person is in the rational creature in a new mode, except sanctifying grace. Hence, the divine person is sent, and proceeds temporally only according to sanctifying grace.
Again, we are said to possess only what we can freely use or enjoy: and to have the power of enjoying the divine person can only be according to sanctifying grace. And yet the Holy Ghost is possessed by man, and dwells within him, in the very gift itself of sanctifying grace. Hence the Holy Ghost Himself is given and sent.” St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, 43.3. - https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1043.htm#article3
“This last knowledge, being quasi-experimental, attains God not as a distant and simply represented reality, but as a present, possessed reality which we can enjoy even now.” Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagange, O.P,. The Three Ages of the Interior Life, V.1, p. 103.
“We are emotionally co-regulated by God’s presence when we are in a state of Sanctifying Grace”
